Culture, Place, and Nature
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Culture, Place, and Nature

Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia

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Culture, Place, and Nature

Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia

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Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book Prize The many dimensions of gold in a shadow economy People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian mining companies prospect for open-pit mega-mines. Drug traffickers launder cocaine profits by smuggling gold into Colombia and claiming it came from fictitious small-scale mines. Through an ethnography of gold that examines the movement of people, commodities, and capital, Shifting Livelihoods investigates how resource extraction reshapes a place. In the Chocó, gold enables forms of "shift" ( rebusque )—a metaphor for the fluid livelihood strategy adopted by forest dwellers and migrant gold miners alike as they seek informal work amid a drug war. Mining's effects on rural people, corporations, and politics are on view in this fine-grained account of daily life in a regional economy dominated by gold and cocaine.

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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780295747545
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Antropología cultural y social

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Maps of Colombia and the Chocó
  12. Introduction: Life during a Gold Rush
  13. Part I: Production: Subsistence and the Dual Household Economy
  14. Part II: Accumulation: Rebusque and the Cash Economy
  15. Part III: Transformation: Money Laundering and Speculation
  16. Conclusion: Life after a Gold Rush
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Series List